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  • Lorena Villavicencio, sister of slain presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, embraces her husband outside the morgue where her brother's body is being held, in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023.
    Ecuador arrests 6 Colombians in slaying of presidential candidate
    Ecuador's evolution into a major drug trafficking hub and the ensuing surge of violence weighs on the nation following the killing of a presidential candidate whose life's work was to fight crime.
  • Po Sheng Lai, the founder of Shern Yeong Precise Optical, a company in the northern Taiwanese city of Yilan that makes high-end glass is pivoting to making defense products.
    Taiwan's companies make the world's electronics. Now they want to make weapons
    As military tensions with China rise, Taiwan's companies are pivoting from civilian manufacturing to defense and weapons.
  • Twitter on Tuesday said it is taking sweeping action against the conspiracy theory QAnon, removing more than 7,000 accounts associated with the group and banning links related to QAnon on the platform.
    KPBS is no longer active on Twitter
    The decision to stop posting to the embattled social media platform follows a decline in audience engagement and threats to public media’s credibility.
  • The Chinese Communist Party's foreign policy chief, Wang Yi, has been reappointed as the country's foreign minister.
    China has replaced its foreign minister, absent from public for a month
    China is removing its foreign minister, Qin Gang, and reappointing his predecessor, veteran diplomat Wang Yi, to fill the position.
  • KPBS Receives Grant Award from California Humanities
    KPBS has been awarded $50,000 for its border podcast “Port of Entry” from California Humanities’ California Documentary Project. Through April 2025, “Port of Entry” will be using the grant funds to produce approximately 20 episodes per fiscal year on a variety of border-related issues, including a season that features stories of indigenous people native to the borderlands.
  • A downed Nazi war plane is displayed outside the Metropol Hotel in Moscow in 1941, after Germany invaded the Soviet Union. During World War II, Western journalists covering the Soviet side of the war were largely confined to the hotel and were not permitted to go near the frontlines.
    'The Red Hotel': Trying to cover World War II from a 'gilded cage' in Moscow
    When Russia's Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, he clamped down on the media. In his new book, author Alan Philps sees parallels to Soviet dictator Josef Stalin who confined reporters in World War II.
  • Russian flag displayed on a laptop screen and binary code code displayed on a screen are seen in this multiple exposure illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on Feb. 16, 2022.
    Meet the man leading the front-line effort in Ukraine's cyberwar with Russia
    Illia Vitiuk is a top Ukrainian intelligence official. For him, the war with Russia is primarily in cyberspace — and in a rare exclusive interview with NPR, he says it's far from over.
  • Carolyn Castaño: 'Nuevo Amanecer'
    Oolong Gallery is pleased to present the first solo show since the gallery’s inception last June in San Diego: "Nuevo Amanecer" by Colombian-American artist Carolyn Castaño, an icon of Latinx painting in Southern California. The exhibition is mainly comprised of her new ruana mixed media paintings amongst other new pieces to be presented at Oolong. Her representative gallery Walter Maciel recently featured her work in LA for a fourth solo exhibition there to a resounding success. Opening reception: New Year's Eve, Dec 31 2022 4-8 p.m. featuring cumbia music and cocktails. The exhibition runs through Feb. 11 2023 with a special artist talk scheduled Jan. 14 at the gallery. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. Read more: L.A. painter Carolyn Castaño turns the humble poncho into a portal to lush worlds (by Carolina A. Miranda | LA Times Columnist Sept 21, 2022) Related links: Oolong Gallery on Instagram
  • World Cup 2022: Watch the games live at Shakespeare Pub
    Watch the 2022 World Cup Live on any of the 8 TVs at the Shakespeare Pub! Seating is available inside or on our outdoor covered patio. No Reservations, seating is first come first serve, no saving seats. Click here to view a full list of games and times. Follow on social media! Facebook + Instagram + Twitter
  • This photo, taken in New York on Wednesday, July 5, 2023, show the logo for Meta's new app Threads, right, and that of Twitter. Meta is poised to unveil the new app that appears to mimic Twitter — a direct challenge to the social media platform owned by Elon Musk.
    10 million sign up for Meta's Twitter rival app, Threads
    Threads is billed as a text-based version of Meta's photo-sharing app Instagram that the company says provides "a new, separate space for real-time updates and public conversations."
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